# long-range training
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China’s H-6K Bombers Push Past the ‘First Island Chain’, Signalling Deeper Pacific Reach
China’s H-6K bombers have conducted a long-range training flight more than 1,000 km past the First Island Chain into the western Pacific, completing scheduled drills despite close approaches by foreign aircraft. The mission underlines Beijing’s growing capacity to project air power beyond its immediate periphery and raises fresh questions about regional risk management and escalation control.
Staging History to Strengthen Wings: An Eastern Theatre Air Force Unit Turns Pageantry into Combat Cohesion
An Eastern Theatre Command air force unit used a 75th-anniversary gala of self-produced performances to stage its institutional history as a tool of political education and morale-building. The unit pairs theatrical retellings of past missions with compulsory history lessons and intensified long-range training, linking cultural work to operational readiness and signalling deeper patterns in PLA professionalisation.